Kernel update and Google Earth

[Markus Schönhaber]

Mark Allen Sheely wrote:
> After updating to 2.6.15-26-386, Google Earth gives me the following
> errors on startup:
>
> do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working
> correctly. Try running with LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH and LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH
> unset.
>
> When GoogleEarth does finally start up, it is unusably slow.  However,
> if I reboot into version 2.6.15-25-386, then  the application runs
> without a hitch.   This
> seems to suggest that something else needs updating along with the
> kernel, right?

Maybe the graphics drivers?

> I did STFW, and what I found didn't make sense to me.  If anyone has any
> help to offer, I would very much appreciate it.

I just installed Google Earth to check this. Neither do I get the error 
message nor do I see any slowness of the app.
I use kernel 2.6.15-26-686, but I doubt that 686 instead 386 is the key 
difference wrt Google Earth.
I f I had to place my bet on something, it'd be the graphics drivers. Maybe GE 
uses OpenGL functions which may be considerably slower with no hardware 
acceleration available.

> Besides, helping me would be a welcome break from arguing about the
> freedom of Ubuntu :) .

Amen!

Regards
  mks